We have a winner for the Vulpine Schwag Grab!
Lots of you told us who you favourite cyclist was not it's time to find our winner
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My word that was a popular Schwag Grab and a very interesting read too, but all good things must come to an end and now it's time to find out who will be walking awy with a stylish Vulpine Soft Shell Jacket AND a Vulpine Merino Button jersey AND a Merino T-Shirt. The random-number-o-meter has been cranked up and the fickle finger of fate has done its pointy schtick and the winner is…
Antonio
Like a lot of you, Antonio's favourite cyclist is Mark Cavendish. A bundle of stylish, technical cycle wear will be winging its way to him asap.
Our lucky winner gets to pedal off with some top class clobber from Vulpine's range of stylish, performance oriented clothing that's technical enough to meet the demands of almost any form of cycling, yet casual enough to work off the bike in equally demanding social environments.
We were well impressed in our reviews of their Merino T and Merino Button jerseys… we've also got the Vulpine SoftShell in on review, but that's being done by Vecchiojo and he's an artist so can't be rushed although it's rumoured to be on the way any day now.
And because we enjoyed this competition so much we're going to run another with some more Vulpine goodies really soon, so fret not if you didn't win this time around.
To find out more about Vulpine visit their website www.vulpine.cc and for the Vulpine view on what's going to happen at the Tour next week visit their blog.
Alberto Contador
rshaw
Tom Boonen
Tommy Voeckler
Eddy Merckx
Andy Schleck is an awesome climber!
Reg Harris
Jens Voight
Jens Voigt, shut up legs!
Either David Millar or The Jens both for their don't give in or give up attitude
Tosh Van der Sande
Chris Anker Sorensen.
There's just something about contadors smooth pedalling...but gotta go with cav!
Robert Miller
Has to be my riding companion, Malrees. When diagnosed with diabetes he said, buy a bike. He rode out with me everyday to help me get fit enough and gradually, without me realising it, got me fit enough for cycling holidays with kit, all in 6 months. A good friend who always made me fix my bike and smiled when i decided to ditch a car for good! 
Mark Cavendish
Eddy "the boss" Boasson Hagen
El pistolero
My favourite cyclist is Fausto Coppi because he looked like a heron.
robinboothroyd.com
johnny hoogerland for not giving in when he went into a barbwire fence
Tommy Voekler.
David Millar
Peter Sagan
Alberto Contador
Bradley Wiggins, because my mate Dave, who's also a keen cyclist, looks like him
The Lion King.......Mario Cipollini
Spartacus - My first favourite, and still the best!
(Laura Trott comes second)
Jon Innerdale, a workmate. If he hadn't been cycling to work, I'd never have got back on a bike again. I'd never have dislocated my collarbone either but that's another story ...
Tommeke! (Tom Boonen)
Or could it be Stephen Roche, one of only two riders to have ever won the Triple Crown of cycling – the Giro d'Italia, Tour de France and world championships
+1 for Robert Miller. Inspirational rider in my youth
Downhill bikes don't make you cool.
Alberto Contador
a climbing god
My grandad.
Got to be Robert Millar - watching him as a teenager got me interested in the sport.
Boris Johnson, just ahead of Fabian Cancellara
Lauren Fignon, watching him back in the day is why I started to ride.
Marco Pantini, despite his flaws. So thrilling to watch him attack on the big climbs.
My 75yr old dad who still manages 50+ miles a week. 
Stumpy
Lance Armstrong
Tom Boonen
jen voigt
Chris Boardman
James. Novice. Inept at bicycle maintenance. Mostly rides an upgraded vintage Ernie Clements Falcon.
Mercx
... ... need more speed!
My wife Ann on tour in France as I type.
Hmm...I think it unfair to ask us to name but one rider when there are so many so I'm naming two (hope I don't get disqualified!)...1. Man of the moment Wiggo, 2. My mate Mickey for getting me back into cycling five years ago - best thing I ever did!
Great Boffo
A friend called Jon who I cycle for recreationally - he has an encyclopaedia like knowledge of local roads
Dave Atkinson
Jacques Anquetil
because....... he was the first rider to win the Tour de France five times
the first French rider to win the Giro d'Italia (1960)
the first French rider to wear the yellow jersey of the Tour de France from the first day to the last (1961)
and
the first rider to win all three Tours, with victory in the Vuelta (1963)
Marco Pantani
Jens Voigt
Eddie Merckx
Pantani!
Robert Miller for me.
Ian Stannard - no longer an unsung hero
Tweeter Sagan!
There can be only one;
Graeme Obree.
(Maybe Oli Pendrey on Gold Hill?)
It is Sean Kelly
Current Jens Voight, from the past Sean Kelly.
Ollie Whalley and Esther Horanyi from 2012 Tour Divide are quite inspiring of current riders as well.
The King : Sean Kelly.
David Millar. To come through, and come clean, like he did demands my huge respect.
Well i would say myself, but thats slightly big headed 
The whole reason I took up cycling is thanks to Channel 4 during the early 90's with Gary Imlach and Phil Liggett. The cyclist being Miguel Indurain. He got me out on the road, cycling stupidly long distances before i'd even started school.
my neighbour Adrian
Beryl Burton
It's got to be The Big Mig - Miguel Indurain. From when I first started watching the TdF back in the 90's. A humble hero!
...
Gino Bartali for winning that triumphant the Tour back in 1948 - 10 years after his previous victory in 38 - and he did it all on a diet of fags, red wine and pasta.
Robert Millar
Hoogerland. Beware of the fence!
The guy that cycles the dulwich dynamo on a cargo bike with his spaniel in the basket
Der Jensie!!
Stephen Roche circa 1987.
Wiggins
Tony Farrelly.....oh no, wait its probably a toss up between Voeckler and Hoogerland after their heroics.in last year's TdF but by the start of August I'm sure I'll have a new one for 11 months at least. That's the best thing about the tour, there's so.many absolute heroes.
Indurain
It has to be Jeremy Roy of FDJ all day attacking fame
Got to be Cav -not just for winning the worlds, green jersey and three in a row on the Champs but for playing the major role in popularisng cycle in Britain over the last few years.
Jens Voight
The Mighty Thor!
Chris Boardman. I remember seeing him training when visiting my aunt on the Wirral and being amazed a bike could go that fast. And I like his Rohan shirts...
Sean Kelly
Peter Sagan for his explosive riding, massive potential and the fact that he hasn't yet been caught for any doping offences!
local legend Ray Harrad. Coming up for 80 years old and still going strong, encouraging lots of chldren to get into cycling as well as marshalling the local club 10 on wednesdays and riding many miles a week, even the occasional race (including cyclocross). He is known by just about every cyclist in the Dartford area
It's my son Harry. Seeing him progress from balance bike to riding without ever having stabilisers has been proper proud dad stuff.
...the Tashkent Tiger, Djomolodine Abdoujaparov! I remember being so impressed that my 4 year old niece could pronounce it!!
there is a a guy that i cycle with/past on my commute to work, he only has one arm and has modded his bike accordingly to have a single sided handlebar. Legend!
Massive respect to him for still riding so actively
Big mig is close, but it has to be graham obree, true legend
Mark cavendish
Eddy Merckx
Marco Pantani, flawed yes, but still beautiful to watch.
My mum - for teaching me how to ride and spending her hard-earned money buying me a whole series of bikes throughout my youth. Even the purple, second-hand one.
meluvsunshine
John Tomac or George Hincapie
Cancellara .... and my dad who bought me my first
Holdsworh Pro
still on the 3rd switch-back of Bwlch !
Chris Boardman
Jens voight
Mark J
Mark Renshaw - worked so hard for MC before been disqualified (on a political descion )
......so many to choose from, Malcolm Elliot, Sean Kelly, Indurain, Abdoujaporov, Pantani, Robbie McEwen, Lance, Jens Voight ..... but I'll settle for 'The Pocket Rocket' Robbie McEwen by a tyres width in a photo finish with 'The Tashkent Terror' Djamolodine Abdoujapaorv. Some sprint that one ! 
Tommy Voekler
Victoria Pendleton.....I shouldn't EVER have to explain that one, should I?
rog
Robert Millar
My wife, SWB, without whom touring would be oh so dull
It doesn't get easier, you just go faster.....maybe
Graham Obree
Thor Hushovd
Thor Hushovd
Graeme Obree
Bernard Hinault, the man was just a badass produced some real proper mythical rides
Robert Millar and/or Wiggo.
jose rujano-mountain goat and golem model
David Millar
mines a medium
Sir Chris
Wiggins
it's got to be Mark Cavendish
Fabian Cancellara
Eddy Merckx - won pretty much everything and even kept going with a broken jaw.
The blonde who was powering along the A11 in front of me.
Sandy Casar
Zak Dempster
On the road: (current) D Millar (history)
Track: Hoy, James, Trott, Pendleton and Varnish
Mark Cavendish
pulling into wind rain scorching sun for mile after mile after mile rabos rick flens
Steve peat
The one who stopped to lend me an inner tube - Or super-Mario...
Mark Cavendish 
bt
Has to be Brian Robinson true gent and a real insperation. I rode with him on a charity ride when he was into his 70's. He hit a pothole at about 50miles and fell hard. After going to hospital he still came back to pres ent medals to all the riders. Found out later he had broken his collarbone.
Miguel Indurain
Emma Pooley
tom simpson
Laurent Fignon
Mark Cavendish - Always love a man who wears his heart on his sleeve.
Chris D
Wiggins
Sagan
Tom Boonen
Hesjedal. Gotta love an unexpected winner.
Thomas de Gendt
Bradley Wiggins
Every day and in every way I'm getting slower and slower
Coppi, absolute ledge, yah!
Wiggins
debbie g
Not very imaginative - Eddy Mercyx. Dominated like no other rider.
Tommy Voeckler for me. Never say die, never know what's coming next.
Geraint Thomas. Surely the best young rider around
Geraint Thomas (and any other Celt - Kelly, Obree, Hinault, Millar, Roche, Cavendish ...)
Thomas De Gendt
Welcome to Hoogerland
Tim Gould legend!!
sir chris hoy
David Millar!
My fave rider is anyone who is serious about doing it clean. They are the guys and gals we should respect.
Pantani.
Thor Hushovd, all-rounder and God of Thunder
Jens Voigt
Thor Hushovd, mainly for last year's tour - hope this year gets better for him mind,not been too good so far!
Sarah Storey, for smashing it....everything.... 
Seaan Yates
Gotta be Cancellara - it's the AwesomePower. Here's hoping for a return to form at the Tour and Olympics! Though if Cav takes the Road Race Gold wouldn't be disappointed.
Definitely Jens Voight!
Jimmy Saville, now then now then guys and gals
Could have been Robert Miller from the past. Jens Voight causes he is mental, but I am going to go for my colleague Kevin Ross who came off descending the Duke's Pass on a recent sportive and is recovering from a broken pelvis.
Ride more, ride better
Could have been Robert Miller from the past. Jens Voight causes he is mental, but I am going to go for my colleague Kevin Ross who came off descending the Duke's Pass on a recent sportive and is recovering from a broken pelvis.
Ride more, ride better
Robert Miller every time
Could have been Robert Miller from the past. Jens Voight causes he is mental, but I am going to go for my colleague Kevin Ross who came off descending the Duke's Pass on a recent sportive and is recovering from a broken pelvis.
Ride more, ride better
Mr Bean - showed the peleton sum real pace in his film.
It has to be my mate Magnus Backstedt
Obree, out of the ordinary...Ekimov for excitment...but overall Roche inspired a generation in '87
noobrakes
Steve Peat
eddie the animal mercx
I'm fairly new to following cycling but i would have to say mark cavendish.Not just because he's the fastest man on two wheels but its his passion when he wins or even sometimes loses.
Marco Pantani, the ultimate pirate
Has to be Sean Kelly
Ian of Woodford
Andy Schleck
CRISP
cobo
David Millar
Je vie dans l'espoir constant
Eddy Merckx
My Dad, from teaching me to ride (and take apart bikes), family cycling holidays in Holland, meeting him in rural Essex when I was cycling one way and he happened to meet me while going the other way. To doing 50 miles with him last year (when he was 70). I wouldn't be a cyclist without him.
Mr Graeme Obree
Fabian Cancellara
Ruben W
My 2 year old son on his balance bike today at the park.
An all rounder, climbing and sprinting. Next week TT.
Roger De Vlaeminck - hard as nails, cool as feck. Awesome sideburns too.....
robert millar
David Millar. First cycling race I ever watched was the TDF stage from London to Canterbury. Didn't understand a thing but saw a British rider going on a ridiculous solo breakaway off the front and loved every second of it. Bit more knowledgeable I hope... 
Jens Voight
Lizzie Armitstead
Tom Simpson
CAV!!
Alberto Contador
Johnny Hoogerland
My dad.
Mark Beaumont
Gotta be Lance for all time, but Cav and Wiggo of current Guys!!
Eddy Merckx
Albert Hoffman...
Tough question - probably Fignon in his prime
Lance Armstrong!!
Richard Jerome. Willeden CC's finest chipper!
George Hincapie - Always giving his all for other riders who have had the glory but a solid presence throughout his career. A close second would be my parents neighbour (Mark the postie) who sold my brother & I post-office bikes for a tenner a time throughout our teenage years.
Cadel Evans (although maybe some cheering for Bradley this year as well).
I'm with Napostrato - Albert Hoffman
Thomas Voeckler - what a brave rider 2011 TdF
Having met the amazing Ben Rockett at the BikeBath event last weekend, he gets my whole hearted vote and support - what an inspirational rider, beating a truly awe inspiring endurance cycling record (legogle) which is beyond comprehension and such a nice bloke with it too!!
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